Webwire: Mozilla teases Firefox OS; Apple settles iPad name dispute

Webwire: Mozilla teases Firefox OS; Apple settles iPad name dispute

Mozilla has morphed its Boot to Gecko project into Firefox OS, an HTML5-based mobile platform designed for low-end smartphones. Operators including Smart, Etisalat, Deutsche Telekom and Sprint have meanwhile leant their weight to the project.

Indian GSM industry group COAI has threatened to take the telecom ministry to court, if it does not include spectrum allocated to Tata Teleservices in a reauction of the 2G frequencies controversially awarded in 2008.

Microsoft will write down all but $100 million of the $6.3 billion it paid for internet advertising company aQuantive in 2007, stating that the acquisition “did not accelerate [online advertising] growth to the degree anticipated.”

Separate side-by-side comparisons claim that Google search is more accurate than Apple's Siri in correctly answering queries for information, and that Google's prototype voice search feature for Android Jelly Bean performed faster than Siri when presented with the same queries.